Sponsored by Bristows Law Firm, In Association with Open Source Security Foundation

Keynotes: 

• Lord Maude, Former Cabinet Minister and founder of GDS 
• Jim Zemlin, CEO, Linux Foundation
• Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK & Dr. Jennifer Barth, SmoothMedia
• Dr Rebecca Rumbul, Executive Director and CEO Rust Foundation

Panels:

10:00 – 10:10 Opening Remarks – Amanda Brock OpenUK

10:10 – 10:25 Keynote: Lord Maude, Former Cabinet Minister and founder of GDS 

10:25  – 10:40 Keynote: Jim Zemlin, CEO, Linux Foundation

10:40-11:30 Panel: Open Source’s impact on infrastructure in the UK Public Sector? | Moderator: Joanna Hodgson, UK Country Leader, Red Hat

• Mike Bracken, Partner, Public Digital, former Executive Director, Digital, Cabinet Office
• Dr. Richard Dobson, Head of Digital and Data at Energy Systems Catapult
• Paul Booth, Head of Hybrid Cloud Services DWP
• Ashleigh Monagle, Innovation Consulting Lead, Mott MacDonald

11:30 – 11:50 Coffee Break

11:50 – 12:40 Panel: Supply Chain Management and SBOM’s | Moderator: Judy Parnall, Head of Standards and Industry, BBC

• Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
• Phil Young, Director, Digital Catapult
• Simon Wardley, Researcher, DxC Leading Edge
• Matt Barker, Founder and CEO JetStack

12:40 – 13:30 Panel: OSPO’s and Governance of Open Source Software | Moderator: Dawn Foster Director of Open Source Community Strategy, VMware

• Sami Atabani, Open Chain
• Keith Bergelt, CEO, Open Invention Network
• Andrew Wafaa, Head of Open Source Program Office, Arm

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 14:45 Keynote:  Amanda Brock, CEO OpenUK and Dr Jennifer Barth, Research Director, Symmetry

14:45 – 15:00 Keynote: Dr Rebecca Rumbul, Executive Director and CEO Rust Foundation

15:00 – 16:00 Panel: Security – Practical Challenges | Moderator: Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer Isovalent and OpenUK Board

• Andrew Martin, OpenUK CISO and Founder and CEO, Control Plane
• Sarah Novotny, Open Source Wonk, Azure Office of CTO,  Microsoft
• Mark Cox, VP Security, Apache Foundation (Log4J)
• Sal Kimmich, Open Source Developer Advocate, Sontaype

16:00 – 16:25 Afternoon tea

16:25 – 17:25 Panel: Policy Challenges & Funding Open Source Infrastructure | Moderator: Emma Thwaites, Director, Open Data Institute

• Jim Zemlin, CEO, Linux Foundation
• Dr Rebecca Rumbul, Executive Director and CEO Rust Foundation
• Mark Bohannon, Vice President, Global Public Policy & Associate General Counsel, Red Hat
• Benjamin Nickolls, Executive Director, Open Source Collective

17:25  – 17:30 Closing  – Toby Crick, Bristows

17:30 – 19:00  Drinks reception sponsored by Bristows – included in day registration

Tickets for this event are limited and not on public sale currently | Bristows LLP, 100 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DH | For information contact admin@openuk.uk

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